Bodhan AI Launched: India's Push for AI-Powered Education Ecosystem

• Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched Bodhan AI as a Centre of Excellence for AI in education at IIT Madras.
• Bodhan AI aims to be the engine for Bharat EduAI Stack, a national digital public infrastructure for AI-driven learning, assessment, and governance.
• It's designed as an interoperable backbone, allowing AI tools to be built once and deployed nationwide, reducing fragmentation in edtech.
• The initiative focuses on democratizing high-quality education using multilingual AI tools, ensuring equitable access, and keeping data within a public-good governance framework.
• Bodhan AI will develop India-hosted AI models, support personalized learning, AI-assisted assessments, and provide real-time analytics for policymakers.